One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.

The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.